Alternate Currents (AC) is a two-year program designed to support artists and organizers working to challenge dominant systems, forge collaborations, and engage with their communities. An alternative to a conventional MFA, AC cohort members work together to understand how justice in the arts is interpreted, documented, and enacted on multiple registers.

Throughout 2023, group discussions and individual cohort members’ creative research worked to interrogate how artists and organizers might more thoughtfully align their practices with anti-capitalist orientations, and the movement lineages they come from, to build relationships, rest, and shore up regenerative modes of exchange.

Their ongoing investigations into the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of ‘commoning’ manifest in an anthology titled We Free Us. Collectively, their contributions trace the contours of what it means to share resources and hold cultural goods in common as viable working practices for distributing wealth, knowledge, and power more equitably.

2023-24 Alternate Currents Cohort Members: Joy Cotton, Amanda Huckins, Alex Jacobsen, Aspen M. Laboy, Artur Melika, Lauren Simpson, Bilgesu Sisman, Valerie St. Pierre Smith, Mi’oux Stabler, Casey Albert Welsch. The cohort is co-facilitated by Nathaniel Ruleaux.

Price: $15.00
ISBN: 979-8-9852972-3-2
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